Random Bits from Boredom

One of the great things with electronc devices in previous years was the ability to replace/repair items but also importantly as the device ...

Batch modifying the exif metadata on your images (NEF, DNGs, jpegs ....) in Windows can be a little painful. Exiftool is a great tool tha...

DisplayCAL has been a great free tool to partner your hardware colour calibrator, like your DataColor Spyder etc. However installing this ...

I have been running VMware, and in particular VMplayer 12.5.x, on my aging Sandybridge (circa 2010) i7-870 desktop for many years and over m...

If you find that ffmpeg is no longer able to use your NVidia's card for hardware decode/encode after an OS or software upgrade, ensur...

Emulation for old games, particularly on Linux, can be a bit of a difficult area to navigate. Whilst there are nice standalone setups like ...

Whilst revisiting Street Fighter on PC and Nintendo Switch I wanted to get a joystick. Hori make 2 joysticks, the Real Arcade Pro V (aka ...

The Topping brand has put out various well received budget Chi-fi units over the last few years, and of interest to me, with various USB en...

Some Dell machines have a soundcard that is essentially wired up differently to how some software expects. This can be evident when using t...

With older machines we have the risk of unsupported software hitting compatib ility problems with each OS upgrade. A recent example of this...

VMWare Horizon 4.8 works well with Fedora but when your service forces you to move to a later version you will find Horizon client 4.9 and a...

After years of backing up files from various harddrives and various folders into new harddrivers and additional various folders, we inevitab...

The need for more storage is a never ending process but the processes for migrating your old disks to new has never been easier withe collec...

The original Herman Miller Aeron has been in the wild since 1994 and has been widely successful in both corporate and domestic office setti...

Linux cgroups ( control groups ) have been around for a long time providing varioius functions for resource management and the ability to s...

A Fedora 26 to Fedora 28 upgrade (with its 4.18.x kernel) broke VMware Player 12.5.7. However upgrading to the newer (14.x or 15.x) version...

One of the great benefits of Linux is that it can run on a whole host of legacy components and still perform well. Re-purposing an old Dell...

Bonding network interfaces for a laptop is a useful feature allowing you to keep the same IP as you switch between a ethernet or wifi connec...

There are numerous tutorials on how to resize/shrinking media but they typically advise using gparted for the task; whilst gparted is a gr...

After finally setting up Kodi to use a DAC mounted on Raspberry Pi for controlling/serving my music controlled by an IOS device, I re-disco...